An Unacknowledged or Classified Association is the public chronicle of my investigation into Jay Herbert Reid, Jr., my grandfather and the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) former longtime Director of Information who had a (still classified) relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

My research seeks to answer the following questions:

• Did Jay work in intelligence or plans (also known as covert operations)?

• Was the IMF his target or his cover?

• Who else was in his CIA-affiliated network?

• Who were the decision makers?

• What, precisely was he working on?

• What were the end results?

Each post will examine a concept as presented by a single source. Each concept will roll up to one or more of the following broad topics:

• Cold War

• Intelligence Agencies

• International Monetary Fund

• Interventions

• United States Government

For example, one source might present the concept of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in terms of geopolitical strategy (Cold War), while others might detail the decision making process (United States Government), intelligence gathering following Lumumba’s election as prime minister (Intelligence Agencies), and the actual implementation of the covert executive action plan (Interventions).

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As a bonus, I will be sharing the articles Jay wrote during his journalism days (1944-1948) at The New York Herald Tribune and The Wall Street Journal, the entire archive of which is in my possession.